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>> and something else that makes this race interesting, the race winner is often given two resolvers loaded with blanks and a cowboy hat while taking photographs in victory lane. the fastest qualifier is awarded a shotgun. so is this unusual or has there been any requests to try to modify that given the climate of things? >> the texas motor speedway says it has had virtually no complaints about this from the people who are attending this race or from the outside. now, that's a tradition that goes back forever, it seems. they put on the cowboy hat, they shoot off the reinvolver firing blanks, i...
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